xviii, 283 p. : 24 cm

A selection of papers presented at the annual conferences of the Society of Animation Studies

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220)

New technologies: What is animation and who needs to know? an essay on definitions / Philip Kelly Denslow. "Reality' effects in computer animation / Lev Manovich. Second-order realism and post-modern aesthetics in computer animation / Andy Darley -- Text and context, analyses of individual films: The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'metaphysics of obscenity' / Steve Weiner. Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation / William Moritz. Putting themselves in the pictures; images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn, Candy Guard and Alison de Vere / Sandra Law. An analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Joanna Priestley's All my relations / Sharon Couzin. Clay animation comes out of the inkwell, The Fleischer brothers and clay animation / Michael Frierson. Bartosch's The Idea / William Moritz. Norman McLaren and Jules Engel, Post-modernists / William Mortiz. Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation / Luca Raffaelli

Contemporary cartoons and cultural studies: The thief of Buena Vista; Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism / Leslie Felperin. Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests, The case of Ren & Stimpy -- Theoretical approaches: Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited / Simon Pummell. Body consciousness in the films of Jan Svankmajer / Paul Wells. Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney, film animation and omnipotence / Michael O'Pray. Towards a post-modern animated discourse; Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival / Terrance R. Linvall and J. Matthew Melton

(Rewriting) history: Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films / William Moritz. Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era; The case of Hans Fischerkoesen / William Moritz. European influences on early Disney feature films / Robin Allan, Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney / J. B. Kaufman

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